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One-million acts of kindness. It’s not a small number, but Albuquerque Mayor Richard J. Berry and the BeKind UNM team are confident the community can reach that goal.  

University of New Mexico graduate and Olympic Athlete Jillion Potter (Exercise Science, ’09) is speaking at UNM’s Student Union Building Ballroom on Nov. 3 beginning at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Born in Austin, Texas, Potter’s...

The UNM Alumni Association in partnership with the Albuquerque Journal is inviting UNM alumni and community members to the next “Lobo Living Room: Election Coverage & The Future of the Newspaper Industry” presented by Journal Editor Kent Walz and...

Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist Ernie Pyle was best known for his poignant stories on soldiers at the frontline during World War II. He captivated readers across the U.S. with a weekly column that ran in more than 300 newspapers. When this...

The UNM Bookstore hosts the "Imagination Celebration" Children’s Book Fair Saturday, Nov. 5, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. This year, the Bookstore is celebrating an imagination-themed party featuring special guests, Canvas and Coffee, who will offer painting...

the UNM College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) hosted its inaugural “Data-to-Knowledge” Symposium at the UNM Sevilleta Field Station, bringing together research-active faculty from across various disciplines in the college to discuss their work and...

As part of an effort to spur the transformation of graduate education in the humanities, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) visited The University of New Mexico to speak with students and faculty about the role the discipline can play in the world’s economy.

It’s been more than 35 years since the last major eruption of Mount St. Helens. Since that blast, much research has been conducted with scientists learning a great deal about one of the most active volcanoes within the Cascade arc, a North-South chain of...

Allan Savory, president of the Savory Institute and chairman of the Africa Center for Holistic Management, will give a talk at The University of New Mexico on Friday, Nov. 18. Savory’s talk, “The Desertification of New Mexico,” will be held at 3:30 p.m....

When you check your Twitter feed, do you assume there is a real person behind each Tweet that is posted or shared? After all, there is a name and a photo, so it must be a real person behind the words, right? Not so fast, say UNM researchers. Although...